Sansum Clinic
Source: Sansum Clinic
In order to expand capacity to give COVID-19 vaccines to patients ages 5 to 11, Sansum Clinic held an all-day, first-come-first served, by-appointment clinic [on Wednesday] at our Pediatrics Department at 51 Hitchcock Way in Santa Barbara. Nurses, medical assistants and our pediatricians primarily focused on administering the Pfizer vaccine to 338 patients. “Vaccinating this group of children is an important step in the fight against COVID-19,” commented Saida Hamdani, MD, Sansum Clinic Pediatrician. “While we are not the only place in town vaccinating children of this age, we felt strongly about playing a part in the local effort to vaccinate a large number of youth before the holiday season begins.”
All of Sansum Clinic’s 8 pediatric providers have been speaking to many families to answer questions and to explain the science behind the approval of COVID-19 vaccines for children. Children in this age group are still required to receive two doses three weeks apart, in order to be considered fully-vaccinated. “The research has shown that these vaccines are safe and effective at preventing COVID-19 in children of this age group,” added Jerold Black, MD, Sansum Clinic Pediatrician. “We are hopeful that our ability to vaccinate these younger patients gets us closer to herd immunity.” Dr. Hamdani was recently voted “Best In Santa Barbara” for the Best Pediatrician category in the Santa Barbara Independent, followed by runner up Dr. Black.
Seven year old Kaeden Blankenship with Dr. Dan Brennan
While eligible children who are patients of Sansum Clinic can still receive the Pfizer vaccine during regular visits to the Pediatrics Department, Wednesday’s clinic helped to quickly immunize a large group of children in one day. Nearly 28 million children in the U.S. became eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine with the FDA’s and CDC’s emergency authorization. With many children back in classrooms and participating in activities, COVID-19 vaccination in this age range protects children from getting ill and potentially spreading infection to others. Since the start of the pandemic, Sansum Clinic has provided 800 COVID-19 vaccines to children, and 27,500 COVID-19 vaccines to adults over 18. As of November 16, 61.3% of the county was fully vaccinated and 71.9 % of those eligible to receive vaccine (age 5 and up) were vaccinated.
Pediatrics patients coming to Sansum Clinic for a COVID-19 vaccine need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian, and a consent form is required. Families can schedule their child for a COVID-19 vaccine through MyChart, or by calling (805) 563-6211. In addition, local pharmacies are administering vaccines for children. A list can be found HERE or visit COVID19.SansumClinic.org
I could not agree more with you. Parents, do research!!!!
Yes, do research. You’ll find that the vaccines are not experimental and that the risk to your child from COVID is huge compared to any risks from vaccination. Not to mention the fact that your unvaccinated child will spread the disease to others.
CANYON – where do you conduct your research? What sources?
I am proudly one of those excited parents. It’s hardly experimental at this point. A simple understanding of biology should tell you that, but that argument is lost on the science illiterate.
You are correct that kids have zero risk. It’s not about their individual safety. It’s a selfless decision to reduce the spread and protect those more vulnerable. Unfortunately we live in a selfish society which is why we’re still dealing with this BS.
Just some current data from the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding the covid risk to children. I might have to check and see if the political persuasion of the AAP is acceptable and thus the information provide deemed informative or misinformation.
(Updated as of 11/11/21) https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/
The Covid risk to kids is but huge.. it’s minute.
Relative to the vaccine risk, the risk from COVID is huge. You conveniently ignored that.
Commenter at 2:28. As it relates to children and their covid risk, that is not true. Misinformation I believe is the term often thrown around.
VOICE – to complete your cherry picked quote…. “Higher transmission rates are observed in older children (10-19 years old) compared with younger children (
and that isn’t cherry picked?
VOICE – haha, no man, it’s not. Here, let me explain for you: you pulled out a quote to make it seem like kids don’t really spread covid too much, therefore the 5-11 year olds shouldn’t get the shot. Well, you left out the next sentence that said kids 10 and up spread it more than younger kids. So, to be genuine in your quotation, don’t leave out the part that counters your claim about the upper 1/3 of the age group you’re talking about. It’s like cheating.
Also, it would be cherry picked if I ignored the part you pulled, which I didn’t. I added it to it, because you intentionally left it out to fit your narrative. See? Yeah, you see.
“Although immediate mortality rates among children are low, long-term respiratory, and developmental implications of the disease remain unknown in this young and vulnerable population.” – Yeah, that last sentence is kind of important. Funny (not really) how you left that out as well.
SACJON – CDC data.
Is it ironic that Republicans tend to be unvaccinated, and therefore have higher rates of severe illness and death from Covid? Or something else?
CANYONKID – OK, so did you see this part? “CDC recommends everyone ages 5 and older get a COVID-19 vaccine to help protect against COVID-19.”
How about this? “The benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks. Get a COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 years and older as soon as you can.”
I’m sure you’ve read all that though, right? It’s from the CDC website: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/children-teens.html?s_cid=11370:cdc%20covid%20vaccine%20children:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21
PIT – that is curious, indeed. I 100% believe you’re right, but did you find a source for that? I’d love to see that so I could share it with some friends of mine who keep insisting “it’s not political.” They’re also “researchers” lol!
Fact check: false
4:06 – bwahahahah! “False.” Yeah? You sure about your “fact check?” Try again.
“became much higher in states with Republican governors by mid-summer and through 2020” – https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/as-cases-spread-across-us-last-year-pattern-emerged-suggesting-link-between-governors-party-affiliation-and-covid-19-case-and-death-numbers
https://fox59.com/news/national-world/gap-between-covid-deaths-in-republican-vs-democrat-counties-larger-than-ever/
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/30/covid-19-deaths-higher-washington-republican-counties/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/red-covid-coronavirus-deaths-are-highest-in-counties-with-the-largest-share-of-trump-voters-report-11632764116
https://news.yahoo.com/covid-cases-deaths-notably-worse-035707646.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/states-republican-governors-had-highest-covid-incidence-death-rates-study-n1260700
Which race votes 90-95% Democrat and is which race has lowest vaccination rate?
wow, didn’t know we had covid vaccinations the summer of 2020. The comment was republican’s tend to be unvaccinated, that is false.
Touche’ @4:19. i think next election cycle that % is going to be much smaller…. and Sac @3:15 again putting words in my mouth that were never said (written). I absolutely never said kids shouldn’t get the shot, ever. It is 100% the parents decision.
4:21 – Nope, not “false” at all? How about you actually provide some evidence for your claims? Here, I’ll help again:
“90% of Democrats had been vaccinated, compared with 68% of Independents and just 58% of Republicans.” — https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/10/01/for-covid-19-vaccinations-party-affiliation-matters-more-than-race-and-ethnicity/
“Republicans and Republican leaning independents, who represent 41% of adults, now make up 60% of the adult unvaccinated population across the country and that political partisanship is a stronger predictor of whether someone is vaccinated than any demographic factor measured.” — https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/press-release/unvaccinated-adults-are-now-more-than-three-times-as-likely-to-lean-republican-than-democratic/
“Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose” — https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/20/10-facts-about-americans-and-coronavirus-vaccines/
“Republicans disproportionately likely to still be unvaccinated against Covid-19” — https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/11/16/gops-divide-over-vaccines-driven-by-skepticism-of-younger-rural-republicans/?sh=72fc31053677
“Unvaccinated adults are more than three times as likely to lean Republican than Democratic, demonstrating the widening partisan divide in Americans’ vaccination status” — https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/581708-unvaccinated-adults-more-than-three-times-as-likely-to-lean-republican-kff
I mean, do you even “research” your “facts” or are you just sitting there spouting off whatever comes to mind?
VOICE – you’re right, you did say that, but so what? You’re point is that kids don’t need it, which I was rebutting, successfully. So really, doesn’t matter whether I said “therefore the 5-11 year olds shouldn’t get the shot” or “therefore the 5-11 year olds don’t need the shot.” The outcome is still the same: you’re wrong.
*your point, not *you’re point
4:19 – “which race has lowest vaccination rate” – why don’t you tell us? Also, tell us why it matters? Fact remains, Repubs still have a lower, much lower, vax rate than Dems, which I’ve provided evidence for over and over today. Your “fact check” is a lie, but you know that. That’s why you haven’t bothered to even try to back it up.
soo do the vaccinated kids STILL have to wear MASKS…..? Insane.
I wonder how many anti-vax parents will become home schoolers when school starts in the fall.
Canyon’s sources are various YouTube links, the GOP, coctors that have been shunned by the medical community, and the disinformation dozen: Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician and major proponent of “natural health”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of Robert F. Kennedy and an environmental lawyer and the founder of Children’s Health Defense
Ty and Charlene Bollinger, self-acclaimed filmmakers and founders of the docuseries The Truth about Cancer
Sherri Tenpenny, an osteopathic physician who believes vaccines cause autism
Rizza Islam, an antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ social media influencer who targets his anti-vaccine messaging to the Black community
Rashid Buttar, an osteopathic physician known for using chelation therapy for numerous conditions, including autism and cancer
Erin Elizabeth, runs an alternative health site called “Health Nut News” who has also shared antisemitic posts
Sayer Ji, the founder of GreenMedInfo, a popular alternative medicine portal
Kelly Brogan, an author of books on alternative medicine, such as Mind of Your Own
Christiane Northrup, an obstetrics and gynecology physician and author who has embraced pseudoscientific alternative medicine theories
Ben Tapper, who works as a chiropractor and founded The Wellness Pointe
Kevin Jenkins, a social epidemiologist focused on inequities in healthcare
VOR didn’t read his own citation’s contents, apparently. He’s trying to spin the virus as not common or harmful in children, but here’s what the pediatricians have to say:
“As of November 11, over 6.6 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic. This week over 122,000 child cases were added, an increase of about 22% from two weeks ago. Child cases have declined since a peak of 252,000 the week of September 2nd, but COVID cases among children remain extremely high. For the 14th week in a row child COVID-19 cases are above 100,000. Since the first week of September, there have been almost 1.6 million additional child cases.
The age distribution of reported COVID-19 cases was provided on the health department websites of 49 states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Since the pandemic began, children represented 16.8% of total cumulated cases. For the week ending November 11, children were 27.0% of reported weekly COVID-19 cases (children, under age 18, make up 22.2% of the US population).
At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children. However, there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects.”
Bottom line: VACCINATE
Try any national newspaper or the free articles on stat.com. These polls and stats are everywhere, for a very long time. Sorry I’m too lazy at this time to provide links.
CANYON – Wild times indeed. People trust YouTube over their own doctors. People still fail to understand that COVID is contagious. It’s awesome being a parent that’s not fooled by FOX, Newsmax, YouTube, Q, etc…..
Vax is a choice to be made with your doctor. Not Joe Biden.
Has Newsom vaccinated his 4 children yet? One is 12 and should have been vaccinated a long time ago.
Curious if CA first family is leading by example.
Over 750,000 Covid deaths. Around 600 if those are children under age 18.
Per CDC Children have over a 99.99% survival rate.
Talk to your doctor make your own decision.
Survival is one thing. Survival with potential debilitating lifetime effects is another. Quit spreading BS.
SBGETSALONG – Yes, exactly. Trust your doctor. So why are you complaining about what Newsom is doing? Is he your doctor?
Yeah, great, you all got it and statistically passed it on to someone else. Your community thanks you for being a vector.
The part you quoted was not the part I referenced in my comment regarding the Covid risk to children. There were some big bold words and bullet point stats you intentionally/conveniently left out.
How did we pass it on? Assuming again, I see. Typical. You don’t know our schedule, our routines as a family, where we go, or what we do. You don’t know how we got it (we do). You don’t know what we did for the 10 days preceding the infection or the 20 days following the infection. We 100% did not pass this on to anyone. Period.
That’s why I said “statistically”. I’m glad you’re so confident.
Don’t worry, you are still up for the Herman Caine award followed shortly by the Darwin Award…
UNRULY -Look, it’s the internet, we can all make up things and say them as “facts.” My oldest, 22, is able to levitate objects with his mind since getting the vaccine. Also, he vomits gold coins. Crazy, right? But seriously, since you asked, here’s the facts:
“There is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems (problems trying to get pregnant) in women or men.” https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/planning-for-pregnancy.html?s_cid=11351:does%20the%20covid%20vaccine%20make%20you%20sterile:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21
I can’t believe how you people nit pick over “data” and turn everything political.
After the FDA pledged “full transparency” regarding the vaccines approval process no one finds it odd the FDA is asking a judge to allow them to release only 500 pages a month out of the 320,000 pages of documents relating the Pfizer vaccine approval? A process that will take until the 2070’s. Makes me what to see the info right now. Does no one else see this as very very odd and troubling?
I know a guy who is planning on leaving California if they continue to mandate the COVID vaccine. He’s not particularly anti-vax, as he’s vaccinated. He just refuses to vax his boys.
I’m genuinely puzzled about why people are anti-vax. I have a cousin who’s a recently sober heroine addict and he has much more to say about the “dangers” of a tested vaccine given to tens of millions than smack from who-knows-where. Is it a massive temper tantrum because the reality TV host lost the popularity contest? There were similar vibes when my kids didn’t eat their vegetables or couldn’t get a Lego set.
Good riddance.
Anti-vax parents becoming home schoolers will just result in more future students who will need extra remedial tutoring to learn critical thinking skills before they can get a real education.